Meet Tyler Williams | Real Estate Investor

We had the good fortune of connecting with Tyler Williams and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Tyler, what’s the end goal, career-wise?
I plan to have our business scaled and operating in a way that my children and even grandchildren can step in and continue operating it – and benefiting from it. I want to give my children and grandchildren the opportunity to jump into entrepreneurship faster and more effectively than we did.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
I’ve always loved Real Estate. I earned a master’s degree in commercial real estate from the University of Florida. My father was a developer and I too worked for some development firms for a time after graduate school. I continued on a corporate path and ran the real estate and construction departments for a major midwestern furniture company and associated franchise groups. However – I soon realized that while I was “working” in real estate, I was really trading my hours for a fixed amount of dollars. There is a ceiling when working in corporate, and I wanted more than what that ceiling would provide. Working in the corporate world is extremely valuable and I would encourage anyone interested in entrepreneurship to spend time working a corporate job. It teaches you how to interact with other professionally under various circumstances. It also shows you what it feels like to commit your time and varying degrees of effort to a (somewhat) fixed income. If you’re meant to be an entrepreneur, that alone will light a fire inside you. I have completely fallen in love with real estate investing and what I’m focused on. Every hour I spend on my business has a direct impact on my life and family. I get to help people who are in serious trouble with their homes (foreclosure, etc), or others who just need to sell their homes quickly and without any hassle. Then I have the opportunity to improve the properties, and give more people a beautiful place to live and love.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
We have young children, so I would definitely take them out to some kid-friendly spots: Denver Beer Co., Culinary Dropout, Breckenridge Brewery in Littleton, Homegrown Tap & Dough, one of the many food halls. I would have to introduce them to a breakfast burrito smothered in green chili.

We’d have to spend some time playing at Wash Park. I would also take them to climb the stairs at Red Rocks, and maybe a quick stop at Lookout Mountain for some good pictures.

If we have time we could stroll through Pearl Street in Boulder – lots of great food and brewery options up there as well.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki is ultimately the book that kicked off our love of real estate. Both my wife and I have read it multiple times, and each time we have felt a fire being lit. While the book is a great introduction to the secrets behind investing and achieving wealth, the accompanying board game – Cashflow, is truly what fueled our paradigm shift. The irreversible paradigm shift happens when you realize that almost everything you’ve been taught in terms of saving and investing is in fact, the wrong approach. We have broken free from the traditional rhetoric of saving, paying off debt, working for money, and using low earning investments that tie up our cash. These concepts have completely changed the way we engage with the world.

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